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The blueprint for the design of cemeteries after the war was set out in the Kenyon Report ‘War Gr...
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Private Arthur Gurr and the Battle of Boars Head
The sparse beauty of the rolling chalk grassland that is the South Downs has long been celebrated...
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An Unintentional War Heroine by Joyce H. Munro
With her long auburn hair pinned up in loose curls, her coy smile and delicate beauty, Alice Eliz...
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110 years ago - 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at Gheluvelt (31st...
As is well known, after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the subsequent failure of the dire...
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PART III An historic event in Washington DC to commemorate those who ser...
It is with great pleasure that we share here some of the many photographs made by photographer an...
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PART II An historic event in Washington DC to commemorate those who serv...
It is with great pleasure that we share here some of the many photographs made by photographer an...
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PART I An historic event in Washington DC to commemorate those who serve...
It is with great pleasure that we share here some of the many photographs made by photographer an...
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Caught in the Crossfire: Canadian Snipers and Open Warfare by Leslie P....
(Originally published on Stand To! No.55 (April 1999 pp. 17-20.). Made freely available as key ma...
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‘Hades’ Henchmen: The Australian Tunnelling Companies and ‘Alphabet Comp...
(This article was originally published in Stand To! No.83 (August/September 2008) pp.6-13. It is...
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'Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO Pioneer Battalion Command...
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO Pioneer Battalion Commander on the Western Front by...
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Three men of the parish
The memorial stone inside Llangeler Church, Carmarthenshire bears the names of fourteen men of th...
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Lieutenant Harry Bolton Riley 2nd Canterbury Infantry Battalion
When visiting New Zealand in early 2024 I spent a few days in Collingwood, where I noticed three...
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